, 1887-04-08
THE BEAUTY or THE FAMILY.

Generally Arrogant, selfish, Vain and
Observation-Disclosures Final Fate.
There il one in most families, I believe,
certainly in nearly all large families, and
my opinion is that the family beauty is q
mistake of nature, with which opinion l
Ia no doubt many others will agree. a.
pecially those who have had. or are hav-
ing, experience with onc Sometime the
beauty" is really beautiful or handsome,
sometimes only so by comparison with
the other members of the family, and
sometimes land this is not seldom) no u
with unprecedented eyes can see any beauty
whatever in the much admired person,
The ~"beauty" is always arrogant, whether
consciously or not, always selfish, and al
ways vain. She is made so much Of,
from the time she is a baby upward. and
told so often that sho is pretty, that she
could not well help it.
They may do nearly, if not quite, as
they like, and their faults are excused in
niring relatives) is perfectly ridiculous,
because they are $50 pretty Speak Of
their audacity, selishness, rudeness,
thoughtlessness, carelessness, disregard
for the feelings of others, disrespectful-
ness, or. in fact, any other quality which
in n plain person would be thought repre-
h~ensible, and the answer is very likely to
be: Eyes, yes, l know it is * sometimes,
but then she is so pretty, you know"
and so we must put up with their rude
ness, carelessness, or any Of their above
mentioned faults, and be domineered over
simply because they are 80 pretty"
And then the parents and other relatives
of the beauty" will often be partial to
in a way which is very unfair to the other
members of the family, for it is very harl
to know that ''father" and mother
are prouder of So-and-So than they are
of you, because she is the most beautiful,
although most likely you are far the most
obedient and respectful.
And these beauties SO often seem to
spend their lives in giving trouble and
sorrow for all the love and admiration
they receive. l knew a gentleman once
who, in speaking of a beautiful little
child to n near relative, said land he was
old enough to know, ''She is very
pretty; SO pretty that she will give
plenty Of heartaches," and, although still
very young, she has verified his predic-
tons many times, and seems in a fair
way to do so many times more. And yet
these ''beauties'' are to be pitied, for, al
though they make other people miser-
able, they also make themselves SO, for
they are nearly always Disconnected. A
family beauty" is never SO happy as the
palmer ones, for she expects SO much ad-
miration and attention that what she does
receive Gems very little, and there are
ten chances to one that she will do one
Of three things. Perhaps she will marry
while still almost q child for with all her
beauty she generally has great fear OF
not getting married). and disappoints the
high hopes which her great beauty has
raised in the minds Of her friends by set
Ting down into a Discontinued, common
place woman, and soon ~fretting oil her
beauty away. Or she may slight and re-
ject all her chances until she realizes
that she has passed her premier jue-
nesse,' n then takes the first one that
offers himself, and SO averts the terrible
danger of becoming what the popular
phrase terms an ''old maid;'' or, most
likely of all, stay unmarried all her life,
for it is q well known fact that more
pretty women stay single than plain ones.
and it is all owing to the fact that they
expect more than their more modest,
if palmer, sisters. 1t is these disap-
pointed beauties" who make up, in a
great measure, the great army Of typical
''old maids" for their annoyance at not
marrying well is in proportion to their
pride of beauty, and it naturally sours
their temper. Chicago Times.